Check out the fun I have for you today. First I have a recipe for Snickerdoodle Cookie Truffles that is sure to please and while you are waiting for them you can color! Today’s book recommendation is Color Me Mindful: Underwater by Anastasia Catris an adult coloring book. My daughter’s are in their twenties and love coloring but finding challenging books can be daunting…..this is one in a collection of coloring books that will have you digging out your crayons, colored pencils, and markers.

Recipe

Snickerdoodle Cookie Truffles

I asked the kids to pick a new dessert recipe and they discovered this Betty Crocker recipe on Pinterest. Since I like truffles this seemed like a good choice. I would prefer to use my own cookies but followed the directions below. In my opinion, this recipe could easily be modified for any cookie. For example, my peanut butter cookies covered in chocolate almond bark..hello. Bake them your way and enjoy!

1. Heat oven to 375°F. Set aside 1 tablespoon cinnamon sugar mixture from the packet. Make drop cookies as directed on pouch. Cool completely, at least 15 minutes.2. In a food processor, process half of the cookies to fine crumbs. Remove and set aside; continue to process remaining cookies to fine crumbs. Mix all of the cookie crumb mixtures in food processor. Add cream cheese. Process until well combined and mixture can be pressed into a ball, 1 to 2 minutes. Shape cookie mixture into 42 (1 1/4-inch) balls; place on cookie sheet lined with waxed paper. Refrigerate 15 minutes.3 .In a medium bowl, microwave candy coating uncovered on High 60 to 90 seconds or until it can be stirred smooth.4. Remove half of the cookie balls from the refrigerator. Using 2 forks, dip and roll chilled cookie balls, one at a time, in the coating. Return to lined cookie sheet; immediately sprinkle top with reserved cinnamon sugar. If the coating has cooled too much, reheat. Repeat with second half of cookie balls. Store covered in the refrigerator.

Book Recommendation

These intricate and beautifully detailed line drawings of underwater scenes are ready for you to bring to life. Relieve stress, practice your mindfulness, and discover your creative side as you unplug and slow down by filling these exquisite pages with color. No matter our age, useful mindfulness techniques can help re-center us amidst a world of noisy stimuli constantly vying for our attention. Coloring can act like a tranquil meditation—relax and unwind with this calming coloring book for adults featuring beautifully detailed line drawings and designs of soothing ocean motifs. Make your mark—inside or outside the lines—with these fifty beautiful black and white illustrations of fish, turtles, coral, and other amazing ocean life just waiting for your gentle touch to bring the magic of the sea to life.

I loved coloring as a child and continued coloring with my children even if the coloring books were less of a challenge. My girls 24 and 21 still enjoy spending hours coloring with fancy pencils, crayons, and markers. When I received Color Me Mindful in my Xoxpert box I was excited by the integral images. My daughter, however, started to drool. She finds coloring relaxing and the perfect way to unwind after the baby has gone to sleep. She colors and her hubby plays Xbox. The pages are thick, allowing you to use markers without bleeding through. Remember being annoyed by that as a child? I haven’t had a chance to color myself, but have my fine-tipped markers and colored pencils ready.

In addition to the Underwater theme, you can find a Tropical and Birds in the Color Me Mindful series, both of which look gorgeous. Later this year an Enchanted themed book will release with fairies. These are perfect gifts for teens to adults.

Other Coloring Books by Cartis

About Anastasia Catris

Anastasia Catris is a freelance illustrator and writer from Wales in the United Kingdom. After graduating from Royal Holloway, University of London with a BA Hons in English Literature, she travelled to the United States to pursue her passion for comics and graphic novels by studying at The Kubert School of Comic and Cartoon Art. She returned to the UK in 2009, taking her first art job as an illustrator for HarperCollins Publishers. Her debut illustrated book, ‘SuBo’s Cat: The Imaginings of Susan Boyle’s Pampered Pussy’, a satirical comedy cartoon, was published through HarperCollins in 2010 and was sold in book stores worldwide. She began exhibiting at comic conventions in 2011, becoming a regular face at acclaimed expos including Showmasters and MCM. Her experience at conventions led her to producing ACEOs and Sketch Cards, for which she has since been hired by International companies including Fox, Marvel, DC, IDW, Dynamite, Perna Studios, Cryptozoic and Breygent Marketing. As a freelance illustrator she has most recently worked for Orion Publishing, Kerrang! Magazine and Cygnus Alpha: The Doctor Who Fanzine. Most recently she has completed a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign for her creator-owned project Cirque Du Mort, which reached its target within 36 hours of going live. She has also recently completed projects for DC on their upcoming Super Villains trading card set. She is currently working for several publishers on freelance illustration work whilst continuing her work on the Cirque Du Mort.

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I have heard so many great things about adult coloring books and how they are good for stress re-leaving and relaxing. I need to try it. I have always liked coloring. Plus, the pictures are gorgeous! Also, those truffles look very yummy.

Hmmm if I ever make 3 dozen snickerdoodles that somehow don’t get eaten I’m totally going to try this! I think I’ll just use white chocolate though, I’ve never seen almond bark here (I usually end up making my own candy bark at Christmas, mhm peppermint).

I love all these adult colouring books 🙂 I have a few, but don’t get them out very often, I always feel a bit guilty I’m colouring instead of doing something productive!

cindy

I have that Snicker doodle mix right now but we aren’t a bit fan of cream cheese so no making truffles out of it tonight. I recently purchased an adult coloringredients book. It should come in tomorrow. I’m planing in listening to a book an coloring for a bit.

Kathy

Rita

Looks so yummy.. oh yeah, and the truffles look good too, LOL. I would love to have a couple of those now with some coffee or tea, but I’m not great at baking and wouldn’t push my luck making those. However you did an awesome job with them!

I do color (again), started a few months ago, and have gotten my 20-something daughter to join in too. She actually colored the pic I have on my sidebar of my blog since she has more patience than I. I do a bit each day or so, she sits for long stretches of time coloring with our colored pencils. Thanks for a great post and I love that undersea coloring book. I would like to have my daughter color in the turtle and frame it 🙂

These sound yummy! I just bought the ingredients for Oreo truffles today thinking they sounded good so great minds think alike! I like the snickerdoodle twist and will have to give this recipe a try. I love the coloring book! I looked at the birds book at the bookstore last weekend and was so tempted but I already have 2 books at home that I need to use a little more first. So pretty! I’m not sure I can resist the fairy book.

Oh these look delicious! They don’t sell snickerdoodle mix here as far as I know, so I probably would need to make cookies first. And candy coating? I’ve never heard of that before, it is possible to make that yourself?

That colouring book looks like a lot of fun! I own a few colouring books, but not this one or any by this author, might have to add it to my wishlist. I like it when the pages are thick enough so the markers don’t bleed through

Red Iza

I haven’t had a proper breakfast this morning, so now I’m salivating on my keyboard ! I can almost feel those cooking melting into my mouth… Hem ! I love coloring books, picking the right colors, spending time doing it and forgetting about the wolrd, it’s a zen passtime 🙂

Ya know, I’ve seen a lot of my fb friends posting pictures that they’ve colored. A few blogging buddies are into coloring books too. I didn’t realize it was such a ‘thing’ with adults until I started seeing it all the time.

There does seem to be a new trend, I’ve noticed it too. My daughters are in their twenties and they find it relaxing. I can color a little, but most times I think I could be reading or blogging and god forbidden cleaning.